12. James Alexander, born 1691, immigrated to America in 1716, Surveyor-General of New Jersey in 1714, Member of the Governor’s Council in New York in 1720, Attorney-General and Auditor-General of New York and New Jersey, died 1756. Married Mary, daughter of John Sprott of Wigtown, who died 1760.

Sources

Charles Rogers, Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the House of Alexander, 2v. (Edinburgh, 1877), II: 279-281.